Knowledge Management Contracts

Knowledge Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Knowledge Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Knowledge Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 493 618
Rank change year-on-year +16 +125 -57
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Management 114 214 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.40% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 150 162
10th Percentile £225 £312 £357
25th Percentile £416 £436 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +2.62% +7.42%
75th Percentile £591 £613 £590
90th Percentile £750 £726 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £455 £438
% change year-on-year +3.30% +4.00% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile - £23.75 £16.94
25th Percentile - £27.50 £18.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -7.28% -13.22%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £59.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £46.25 £63.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -44.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Knowledge Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Knowledge Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Knowledge Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Management in the UK

Knowledge Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Knowledge Management.

Daily rate trend for Knowledge Management in the UK

Knowledge Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Management in the UK

Knowledge Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Knowledge Management.

Hourly rate trend for Knowledge Management in the UK

Knowledge Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Knowledge Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Knowledge Management in the UK

Knowledge Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Knowledge Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +42 98 £500 -9.09% 75
UK excluding London +29 62 £470 +3.30% 57
London +35 43 £500 -13.04% 28
Work from Home +69 20 £525 -4.55% 27
South West +20 13 £450 -5.71% 5
South East +7 13 £150 -71.43% 17
East of England +24 12 £750 +136.22% 11
North of England +10 12 £639 +70.33% 17
Yorkshire +25 10 £639 +21.67% 6
Scotland +30 8 £500 +11.11% 6
Wales +22 3 £450 - 2
North West -5 3 £710 +102.86% 7
Midlands +26 2 - - 4
West Midlands +22 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £710 - 4

Knowledge Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.26%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.63%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.88%) Avolution ABACUS
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.28%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (9.65%) Azure
3 4 (3.51%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.63%) GitHub
5 2 (1.75%) AWS
5 2 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.75%) OCI
5 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.88%) GCP
6 1 (0.88%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle CX
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.14%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.26%) LAN
2 6 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (1.75%) Metadata
1 2 (1.75%) Power BI
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Appium
2 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.88%) Postman
2 1 (0.88%) Selenium
2 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 46 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (19.30%) Finance
3 13 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.39%) Legal
6 2 (1.75%) Banking
6 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.88%) Back Office
7 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Electronics
7 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Military
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (15.79%) Developer
2 17 (14.91%) Senior
3 15 (13.16%) Support Specialist
4 13 (11.40%) ServiceNow Developer
5 10 (8.77%) Analyst
5 10 (8.77%) Technical Support
6 9 (7.89%) IT Support
6 9 (7.89%) IT Support Specialist
7 7 (6.14%) ITIL Manager
7 7 (6.14%) Lead
8 6 (5.26%) Technical Specialist
8 6 (5.26%) Technical Support Specialist
9 5 (4.39%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 5 (4.39%) Support Analyst
10 4 (3.51%) Knowledge Manager
10 4 (3.51%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.51%) SAP Support
10 4 (3.51%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.51%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.51%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.51%) CSS
1 4 (3.51%) HTML
2 3 (2.63%) .NET
2 3 (2.63%) .NET Framework
2 3 (2.63%) LDAP
3 2 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.88%) Ajax
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Wicket
4 1 (0.88%) D3.js
4 1 (0.88%) GWT
4 1 (0.88%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.88%) Java EE
4 1 (0.88%) JSF
4 1 (0.88%) Node.js
4 1 (0.88%) REST
4 1 (0.88%) RESTful
4 1 (0.88%) Spring
4 1 (0.88%) Spring MVC
4 1 (0.88%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.14%) CMDB
4 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.63%) NHS
6 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) IVR
6 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.75%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.88%) iPad
7 1 (0.88%) iPhone
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.16%) Windows
2 12 (10.53%) Windows 10
3 4 (3.51%) Android
4 3 (2.63%) Linux
4 3 (2.63%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.88%) Unix
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (52.63%) ITIL
2 36 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (28.95%) Problem Management
4 32 (28.07%) Service Management
5 27 (23.68%) Incident Management
6 26 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (21.05%) Analytics
8 22 (19.30%) User Experience
9 21 (18.42%) Agile
10 19 (16.67%) Change Management
11 17 (14.91%) Customer Service
11 17 (14.91%) Decision-Making
12 16 (14.04%) Project Delivery
12 16 (14.04%) Project Management
13 15 (13.16%) Service Delivery
14 14 (12.28%) Service Design
15 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (10.53%) Proactive Management
17 11 (9.65%) Computer Science
17 11 (9.65%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.14%) JavaScript
1 7 (6.14%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.26%) Python
3 3 (2.63%) C#
3 3 (2.63%) MATLAB
3 3 (2.63%) SQL
3 3 (2.63%) VB.NET
3 3 (2.63%) VBA
4 2 (1.75%) Java
5 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.88%) R
5 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.42%) Degree
2 21 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.77%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (7.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (7.02%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.63%) CCA
8 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.63%) Citrix Certification
9 2 (1.75%) CCENT
10 1 (0.88%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.88%) ECDL
10 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) QA
1 6 (5.26%) SLA
2 5 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.88%) GRC
5 1 (0.88%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.89%) SCCM
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.63%) Terraform
4 2 (1.75%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (31.58%) ServiceNow
2 21 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.89%) Workday
4 8 (7.02%) SAP
5 7 (6.14%) HP
6 5 (4.39%) Cisco
7 4 (3.51%) Apple
8 3 (2.63%) Adobe
8 3 (2.63%) Ariba
8 3 (2.63%) Citrix
8 3 (2.63%) Oracle
9 2 (1.75%) Remedy
9 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.75%) UiPath
10 1 (0.88%) BMC
10 1 (0.88%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.88%) Concur
10 1 (0.88%) Google
10 1 (0.88%) Ivanti
10 1 (0.88%) Splunk